I remember as a child that almost every week-end my mother baked a pound cake. Oh, how I loved to lick the beaters! I now make one frequently. We all agree that there's no pound cake recipe as good as Mama's!
Although we always LOVED "sad" pound cake, it's not, of course, the goal of most bakers for a pound cake to be less than perfect. For some great tips on how to make this pound cake recipe turn out the PERFECT cake, watch the following youtube video on pound cake baking tips.
My mother always iced her pound cake with icing that she NEVER attempted to make if it was rainy or humid. It involves boiling Karo and sugar, and you stir until you see a 'hair' wisping out from the stirring spoon! She never used a candy thermometer, and she always managed to get it just right. Too much cooking made the icing be too hard, and not enough made it too sticky and soft. I double-test! I use a candy thermometer AND look for the wispy 'hair!' (and I STILL don't always get it right!)
She was FAMOUS all over town with her Divinity Candy, which is the exact same recipe as the icing, but you dip it up into little 'confections' onto waxed paper. She gave it to friends for Christmas, and they always couldn't wait for it! My mother and father, John C. and Elizabeth Cottingham, celebrate Sally's 3rd birthday with a POUND CAKE!
Grandmama Cottingham's Perfect Pound Cake
I remember as a child that almost every week-end my mother baked a pound cake. Oh, how I loved to lick the beaters! I now make one frequently. We all agree that there's no pound cake recipe as good as Mama's!
Although we always LOVED "sad" pound cake, it's not, of course, the goal of most bakers for a pound cake to be less than perfect. For some great tips on how to make this pound cake recipe turn out the PERFECT cake, watch the following youtube video on pound cake baking tips.
My mother always iced her pound cake with icing that she NEVER attempted to make if it was rainy or humid. It involves boiling Karo and sugar, and you stir until you see a 'hair' wisping out from the stirring spoon! She never used a candy thermometer, and she always managed to get it just right. Too much cooking made the icing be too hard, and not enough made it too sticky and soft. I double-test! I use a candy thermometer AND look for the wispy 'hair!' (and I STILL don't always get it right!)
She was FAMOUS all over town with her Divinity Candy, which is the exact same recipe as the icing, but you dip it up into little 'confections' onto waxed paper. She gave it to friends for Christmas, and they always couldn't wait for it!
My mother and father, John C. and Elizabeth Cottingham, celebrate Sally's 3rd birthday with a POUND CAKE!